Now she is getting the job – but her title is only going to be editor, not editor in chief. Pyun was recruited to the magazine by Northrop, who at the time of her departure apparently said of her deputy, “She could be running this magazine.” Jeanie Pyun, who has been acting editor of Organic Style since Peggy Northrop jumped ship to be editor in chief of More magazine at Meredith Corp., has been bumped up to be the mag’s official editor. She said it will run in the section called “Proverbs,” a first-person column that has also featured conservative pundits Christopher Buckley and Peggy Noonan over the years. “We have a short excerpt,” said Editor-in-Chief Ellen Levine. Monthly Good Housekeeping is taking a slightly different approach, looking for something other than public policy notes and details on the inner workings of the White House. The magazine is said to be planning a big six-page spread on the book. “How many people do you know who are going to read a 900-page book by Thursday?” queried People Executive Editor Larry Hackett. People did not expect to lose anything by coming out a few days after the book hit bookstores, to record demand.
Clinton and his publisher rebuffed that deal, and in the end, no deal was struck for first serial rights – although Time magazine had a cover story, short excerpts and a long exclusive interview with the former president by Joe Klein and Michael Duffy. Terms of the two deals were not revealed, but both were certainly at a fraction of the $500,000 that Rolling Stone chief Jann Wenner had offered for first serial rights. But in true Clintonian fashion, the negotiations dragged on right until yesterday – the deadline for the issue that hits tomorrow. People magazine, meanwhile, negotiated its own deal for second serial rights for this week’s issue. The magazine is doing “second serial rights” – which is basically how the book publishing industry refers to any excerpts published after the actual book goes on sale. GOOD Housekeeping is the latest magazine to jump on the juggernaut for Bill Clinton‘s “My Life” autobiography.